In the wake of our notorious article, “The Top 10 Zoos in America“, we more or less let our individual zoo articles fall by the wayside. But no more! We’re coming back strong with our choice as the #4 zoo in America: The Phoenix Zoo.
You might not place your finger on it immediately, but you’ll [...]
I gave you beaches, mountains, adventure, and a little bit of everything else. Yet, I still managed to overlook one of the biggest Spring Break activities of all: golf.
Whether it’s college friends, fathers and sons, or even whole families, more and more people are spending their week away from the real world out on the fairway, and [...]
Trolling over the archives I realized that we hadn’t done much lately for the golfers in the audience, and with the temperatures warming up quickly over the next couple of months, not to mention Spring Break just around the corner, the time seemed right.
Since the temperature likes to hover above one hundred degrees in the [...]
Beer-drinkers unite! It’s February!
That means that the Major League Baseball Spring Training season will soon descend on Arizona and Florida, and whether you’re a true-blue fan of our National Pastime or just need an excuse to get drunk, there’s no more exciting time of year.
We might get to Florida and the Grapefruit League in the [...]
Got a good deal for you football fans lucky enough to be headed to this Sunday’s NFC Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona. The Crowne Plaza Phoenix, consistently one of my favorite North Phoenix hotels, is offering a neat little package with one element I’ve never seen before.
You get the basics: the room, the breakfast, the [...]
Every February, one lucky city has a chance to host a basketball extravaganza of such spectacle and fanfare as to rival Game Seven of the NBA Finals (well … almost): the NBA All-Star Weekend and Game. A chance for seasoned pros, rookies, celebrities, fans and the best of the best to come together, let their [...]
This may just be because I’m from Texas, but it seems to me that every boy (and man) secretly wants to be a cowboy, and I’ve found a fantastic place just outside of Phoenix, Arizona to indulge that fantasy: Rawhide at Wild Horse Pass.
Arizona’s largest western-themed attraction for over 37 years (and voted the best [...]
At USA Travel Guide, we support two types of “green” hotels: those that have gone green and those that get you on the green.
It’s December, and temperatures are crashing faster than the stock market, but that golf fiend within doesn’t seem to understand that it’s just not as much fun when it’s forty degrees outside. [...]
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Outdoor Adventure – Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, Arizona
In how many places can you climb a mountain without leaving the city limits? And don’t start ringing off a bunch of towns already in the mountains. That’s cheating.
On the other hand, if you said “Phoenix, Arizona” you’d be right on the money! That’s because this vibrant Sonoran Desert city is home to Piestewa Peak [...]